"Six more tracks by the coolest band in the Tri-State area. Daniel DiMaggio is living in the big city now and as the driving force behind Home Blitz, he keeps the rhythms crazier and the feelings more nervous than ever, having fully adopted the restless jangle of Hoboken '81, the working class anger of London's East End in the mid '70s and the starry-eyed wonder of the Sunset Strip in '78. You can choose which lens you want to view them through, though there's only one right answer: that which is the most sincere, because Home Blitz is nothing if not real. If they align most closely with the sort of bespectacled guitar pop-in-the-wake-of-punk that gave rock critics the chills way back when, it's because that's where the heart of this music resides, the thrill of excavation and discovery of an era before one's own, the one that speaks to you the most clearly. There is real love in these songs, five new originals and a reverent cover of Game Theory's 'Rolling with the Moody Girls.' What a great time you're gonna have with this one." Includes mp3 download; hand-numbered edition of 1000 copies.

"It's okay there aren't any two Home Blitz releases which sound alike. Sure, bandleader Daniel DiMaggio is involved in all of them -- that's his voice, a British scouser trapped in a latent New Jersey teenager's body -- and they're all pretty much as lo-fi as you can get without the tape disintegrating, but it's his approach to songwriting that changes things up on each new record. Here we have two new ones, songs about nostalgia for experiences not had (A.T.K., which shifts from Incredible Kidda Band style energy to Pavement-esque slacker downbeats in just over two minutes), and experiences in interstate travel and estimation of one's worth ('Last Cycle,' doing a completely different trick in something more like three). Both songs bristle with the sort of nervous energy that powered groups like the Feelies and Game Theory, two distinct touchpoints in Home Blitz's sloppy, floppy sound, and when they power through it in the live setting (with guitarist Theresa Smith, bassist Jason Sigal and teenage drummer Henry Hynes in tow), they become the greatest band on the East Coast for that moment." Numbered, limited edition of 300 copies.